Reports
In 2020, Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts (PDM), one of the founding organizations of the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature, convened a Legislative Reform Working Group (LRWG) to assess the Massachusetts legislature’s many reported deficiencies and to investigate the reasons underlying those deficiencies. Participants in that work extended beyond PDM’s membership to activists and concerned citizens affiliated with a variety of groups. In November, 2021, the LRWG issued its report titled The Massachusetts Legislature: Democracy in Decline.
Read The Massachusetts Legislature: Democracy in Decline.
Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts, November 2021
In 2025, the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature (CROL) released an update to PDM’s 2021 report, reviewing the performance of the Massachusetts State Legislature in the four years since the initial publication. The report assesses how the climate for reform has changed and whether and how the legislature has responded.
Read Democracy in Decline: Denial and Delay.
Coalition to Reform Our Legislature, December 2025